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The era of the Shang and the Zhou dynasties is generally known as the Bronze Age of China, because bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, used to fashion weapons, parts of chariots, and ritual vessels, played an important role in the material culture of the time.
- The Qin
Endowed with cosmological and metaphysical significance and...
- The Pipa
The Chinese pipa, a four-string plucked lute, descends from...
- Jar
Jar - Shang and Zhou Dynasties: The Bronze Age of China
- Knotted Dragon Pendant
Its elegant curves illustrate the extraordinary talent and...
- Food Serving Vessel
Food Serving Vessel - Shang and Zhou Dynasties: The Bronze...
- Handle-shaped Blade
Handle-shaped Blade - Shang and Zhou Dynasties: The Bronze...
- Wine Container
[Zhixin Jason Sun, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Collection...
- Bell
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Arts of Ancient...
- The Qin
2 lip 2015 · The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print.
5 dni temu · Modern Chinese characters evolved from 3,000 years ago. Up to now, tens of thousands of glyphs of ancient characters have been discovered, which must be deciphered by experts to interpret unearthed documents.
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. [ a ] The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the Late Shang period.
Welcome to the website of the Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. This site contains a range of new tools designed to facilitate extensive analyses of the phonology and phonological structures of early Chinese texts.
23 wrz 2021 · Joseph Needham enthusiastically described dozens of ancient Chinese inventions which were (and remain) widely used in the Western world that one couldn’t even imagine they actually had come from the Far East.
22 kwi 2024 · They have given us the four greatest inventions in the world – the compass, gunpowder, paper, and printing, but the list doesn’t stop there. Here are the top 18 (including two from the medieval period) most famous Chinese inventions: 18. Papermaking (50–121 AD)
